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  • Twentieth Century History (1901–2000)
  • Twenty-first Century History (2001– )
  • The Slave Trade
    The Slave Trade

    The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Middle Passage

    The transatlantic slave trade involved the purchase by Europeans of enslaved men, women, and children from Africa and their transportation to the Americas, where they were sold for profit.... Find Out More

  • Bacon Tait (1796–1871)
  • “Tales of Oppression” by Isaac T. Hopper, National Anti-Slavery...
  • Cesar Tarrant (ca. 1740-1797)
  • “The Petition of the Heir of C. Terrant” (1831)
  • Will of Nancy Tarrant (July 26, 1843)
  • Tax on Religion; an excerpt from the Journal of...
  • Eleanor Ross Taylor (1920–2011)
  • James T. S. Taylor (1840–1918)
  • Peter Taylor (1917–1994)
  • Walter H. Taylor (1838–1916)
  • George Teamoh (1818–after 1887)
  • Telegram from George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln (September...
  • Tenant Revolts in Virginia During the American Revolution
  • James B. Terrill (1838–1864)
  • William R. Terrill (1834–1862)
  • Testimony about the Gloucester County Conspiracy (1663)
  • Testimony about the York County Conspiracy (1661)
  • Testimony in the Trial of Gabriel (October 6, 1800)
  • Text A of the Virginia Plan, Presented by Edmund...
  • “The American Negro: His Past and Future” (1900)
  • “The Annual Congratulation” (December 30, 1841)
  • “The Course for January 9: Set the Tuition Idea...
  • “The discovery of New Brittaine. Began August 27. anno...
  • The Domestic Slave Trade in Virginia
  • The Federalist Papers: No. 10 (November 23, 1787)
  • The Federalist Papers: No. 42 (January 22, 1788)
  • The Federalist Papers: No. 54 (February 12, 1788)
  • “The humble petition of Jane Webb” (August 16, 1722)
  • “The Petition of Thomas Savage” (February 10, 1725) 
  • “The Special Session’s Aftermath” (September 23, 1956)
  • “Guardian of the Tomb” (August 14, 1898)
  • The Deliverance and the Patience; an excerpt from A...
  • “Their devilish plot”; an excerpt from The History of...
  • “Ther maner of mariing”; an excerpt from “Relation of...
  • “Ther maner of visitinge the sicke with the fation...
  • “They Hanged Him,” Richmond Dispatch (November 9, 1889)
  • “They hunt you down”; an excerpt from Prisoners of...
  • Third Charter of Virginia (1612)
  • The Third of Five Student Speeches written by Francis...
  • “Third report of a committee of the representatives of...
  • The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • “This starveing Tyme”; an excerpt from “A Trewe Relacyon...
  • George H. Thomas (1816–1870)
  • Philip Thomas (1831–1888)
  • Thomas’s Administrator v. Bettie Thomas Lewis ...
  • Thomas’s Administrator v. Bettie Thomas Lewis (June 16, 1892)
  • Ida Mae Thompson (1866–1947)
  • Letter from George Thorpe to John Smyth (December 19,...
  • Letter from George Thorpe to Sir Edwin Sandys (June...
  • George Thorpe (bap. 1576–1622)
  • Letter from Sir William Throckmorton et al. to Sir...
  • Mary Spear Tiernan (1836–1891)
  • Excerpt from Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave,...
  • Letter from Robert Tindall to Prince Henry (June 22,...
  • “To Atlas” by St. George Tucker (June 5, 1793)
  • “To be SOLD by the subscriber, at her STORE...
  • “To the Citizens of Richmond,” Richmond Enquirer (December 31,...
  • “To goe likewise abroad”; an excerpt from Virginea Britannia....
  • “To the New York Committee for the Celebration of...
  • “To the Editor of the Enquirer.” (September 1, 1804)
  • Tobacco in Colonial Virginia
  • Burwell Toler (ca. 1822–1880)
  • “Total of 1,000 Patients Expected at Hospital” (October 25,...
  • “Town Gossip.” (May 5, 1866)
  • Towns and Town Life in Early Virginia Indian Society
  • The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Middle Passage
  • The Travel Journal of William Hugh Grove (1732)
  • Treaty Ending the Third Anglo-Powhatan War (1646)
  • The Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1768)
  • The Treaty of Fort Stanwix (November 5, 1768)
  • The Treaty of Hard Labor (1768)
  • The Treaty of Hard Labor (October 14, 1768)
  • The Treaty of Lochaber (October 18, 1770)
  • Trevilian Station, Battle of
  • Trial of George Wythe Sweeney (June 2 and 23,...
  • Adriana Trigiani
  • List of People on La Trinidad Expedition (August 1,...
  • La Trinidad Expedition Log (August 14, 1566)
  • La Trinidad Expedition Log (August 24, 1566)
  • La Trinidad Expedition Log (August 25, 1566)
  • E. Lee Trinkle (1876–1939)
  • Nicholas Philip Trist (1800–1874)
  • A true and sincere declaration of the purpose and...
  • “A true description of the people, of their cullour,...
  • A True Relation of the state of Virginia Lefte...
  • A True relation of such occurrences and accidents of...
  • A True State of the Smallpox in Williamsburg, February...
  • Tsenacomoco (Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom)
  • William M. Tuck (1896–1983)
  • George Tucker (1775–1861)
  • Beverley Tucker (1784–1851)
  • Letter from Samuel Wilbert Tucker to Carl Budwesky (February...
  • St. George Tucker (1752–1827)
  • Nat Turner’s Revolt (1831)
  • Henry Turpin (1836–1908)
  • “Twenty and odd Negroes”; an excerpt from a letter...
  • Twenty-Slave Law
  • Two Penny Acts (1755, 1758)
  • Letter from Samuel Tyler to James Monroe (February 11,...
  • James Hoge Tyler (1846–1925)
  • John Tyler (1790–1862)
  • Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853–1935)

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